Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife-Chapter 1515: Rising Higher and Higher 4

Wang Zhenguo couldn’t help but laugh, "We’ll soon be harvesting wheat, so let’s finish that first before building the houses. For now, let Kunzi get some practice. Tonight, we’ll bring it into the warehouse and organize some people to buy diesel. I already asked Secretary Guocheng; this is a diesel engine. We should also prepare a few extra belts for the thresher—during threshing, the belts are prone to breaking, which can halt work."

Wang Zhenguo was knowledgeable and experienced. He wouldn’t wait for the tractor and thresher to break down before figuring out how to fix them. During the busy farming season, who has the time to run into town to buy these items? And it’s not even certain they’d be available immediately.

The leadership always said, "Never fight an unprepared battle."

Grandpa Lu immediately chimed in, "Right, right. I heard from my granddaughter that their brigade’s tractor uses a lot of fuel, a whole lot. Without fuel, it won’t work. So, stocking up on fuel isn’t a bad idea."

Grandpa Lu’s family was large and thriving, and though nobody knew which granddaughter he was referring to, everyone understood that tractors were a good thing.

Everything was ready, and the summer harvest began.

The villagers finally witnessed the power of the tractor and thresher. The tractor hauled the harvested wheat to the field and unloaded it in one trip, which was equivalent to seven or eight trips with flatbed carts or three or four trips with horse-drawn or mule-drawn carts. People didn’t have to strain themselves at all. During the day, the tractor transported the wheat, and at night, the thresher took over. Forks loaded the wheat into the thresher’s opening, and from the wide belt below, wheat grains sprayed out above.

Both the livestock and the people saved energy, but the most impressive thing was the speed.

All the wheat was harvested and threshed. Then the tractor’s bed was removed, and a plowing blade—a plump contraption that seemed to be called a rotary tiller—was installed. The fields were immediately ready for cultivation, far faster than plowing with livestock.

Jobs that used to take over a month were now completed in less than a month.

During this period, the tractor and thresher broke down several times, but Professor Jin fixed them effortlessly each time. The villagers started treating him as a living legend. If it weren’t for the tractor and thresher, they would’ve never realized the old professor possessed such incredible skills!

"Captain, how much money does our brigade have left? Let’s take a look soon and see if we can buy another tractor ourselves!" Wang Chenglong suddenly spoke up while everyone was working on building storage sheds for the tractor and thresher. "One tractor saves us so much effort. Imagine if we had two, or three, or even four tractors running at the same time. Everyone, you don’t need me to tell you how much faster things would be!"

"Do you know how much one tractor costs?" Wang Zhenguo fixed his gaze on Wang Chenglong.

Wang Chenglong shook his head. "I don’t know. Captain, just tell me—how much does it cost?"

Actually, Wang Zhenguo didn’t know the exact price of a tractor either. "It’s so expensive you can’t even imagine. If it weren’t for Xibao coincidentally discovering that box of gold and handing it over to the authorities, we might not even have enough money for this one tractor."

At the mention of this, Wang Chenglong couldn’t help but say, "Xibao really has great luck; she’s truly a blessing."

Grandpa Lu muttered daily about Xibao, and it turned out he hadn’t been doing so without reason.

"Exactly, Xibao really lives up to being a blessing. With Xibao around, our brigade enjoys smooth weather and success. This year has been so remarkable—the harvest wasn’t disrupted by rain, and as soon as we finished planting rice, corn, and sweet potato seedlings, the rain came just in time. The crops are thriving beautifully."

"Whenever Xibao wasn’t around during the past couple of years, I always felt uneasy."

"Captain, where exactly did Xibao find the gold? Once we’re done with all the work, let’s go have a look ourselves. Maybe we can dig around with shovels and find more gold to turn in—it’d be a great achievement for the country."

"Yeah, yeah, Captain, tell us about it!"

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